Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elected legislators. If only a small percentage of the funds used for all of the surveys and publications stressing "needed reforms" could be siphoned off and diverted to the institutional officials responsible, so that they could incorporate some of their well-thought-out plans and programs, I'm sure the results would immediately justify the efforts and money spent. But until some realistic action replaces theoretical talk, the problems and needs will continue to snowball...
...rare that non-political news gets lead headlines. Says Ian Menzies, managing editor of the Morning Globe,"Tom (Winship) would fill the whole front page with politics if he could." There remain, to be sure, vestiges of the old home-town paper. Pictures of by-standers comforting the victims of car accidents still get put on page two. Violent headlines are the rule, even for routine items. But the grosser forms of parochialism have been removed...
...room is under-heated on this unusually cold winter day. In a corner there is one electric heater. Mr. Kan'an tells me that the building trade in his city has been hit hard by the outcome of the June war. No construction work goes on, because nobody feels sure about the future. There is a general regression in trade; one of the problems is that the Arab businessman can no longer import freely from Amman. He is compelled to buy Israeli products at a much higher wholesale price. Therefore prices are up and sales are down...
...standard usually expected of a Harvard team. Coach Shepard is not worried, however, as he thinks that the mistakes are due to his shuffling around of the infield while getting a look at all his players. Yesterday he said that once the team was set, he was sure the fielding would work itself...
Honor Tracy resembles a particularly mean Irish longshoreman on strike. Her corner-of-the-mouth wit has the fine rollicking belligerence that keeps everyone within eavesdropping distance of the drunk at the end of the bar. But sure, Honor is a bit of a fraud. The fist she brandishes so threateningly is really papier-mache. Her secret problem is that she is a satirist who faints at the sight of blood. Her seventh novel has all the brilliance of an expertly pulled punch...